Nina Maaranen

YouTube video by American University of Beirut Susanne Dahlgren: A long journey in Anthropology of Southern Yemen: From Society to Court Room to...

FIME's director Susanne Dahlgren is interviewed in the American University of Beirut's podcast Society and Science (العلم والمجتمع)

Listen to the podcast here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq0X...

Jane Goodall: April 3, 1934 – October 1, 2025

Jane Goodall was a global legend at the forefront of discovery — breaking through barriers for women in primatology, science, and beyond.

Her curiosity, strength, and kindness changed the world, bridging countries and cultures in pursuit of a better future.

Project Curator: Hidden Stories of Childhood Greece and Rome; Egypt and Sudan Full-time: 41 hours per week (including one hour paid lunch break) Fixed term for 12 months £36,396 per annum Application deadline: 12pm (midday) on 17 October 2025

Come work with us!🏺
Together with my brilliant colleague Georgia Barker we are looking for a project curator to research how childhood is represented in the collections of our two departments at the British Museum, Egypt & Sudan and Greece & Rome. 👇👇👇

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Badaro Talk 17.9. – Joanna Töyräänvuori: Late Bronze Age System Collapse on the Eastern Mediterranean – Lessons from History – Suomen Lähi-idän instituutti The next Badaro Talks lecture ”Late Bronze Age System Collapse on the Eastern Mediterranean – Lessons from History” will be […]

The lecture ”Late Bronze Age System Collapse on the Eastern Mediterranean – Lessons from History” will be given by FIME’s new researcher Joanna Töyräänvuori on Wednesday 17th of September at 6pm at the FIME premises at 30 Badaro Street, Chaoui Building. You can also attend online.

Our current climate already merits serious research and policy attention | PNAS Our current climate already merits serious research and policy attention

Climate change isn’t a future problem - it’s a present reality. But even without increasing climate chaos, research shows human health is weather-dependent.🌡️

A new paper for @pnas.org by Nick Obradovich, @emlawrance.bsky.social and @keltonminor.bsky.social: ow.ly/SApH50WHnGW

#Climate #Health

Childhood nutritional stress and later-life health outcomes in medieval England: Evidence from incremental dentine analysis Childhood malnutrition may have led to poor adult health in medieval England and became less common after the Black Death.

This paper was a long time coming - includes data gathered over many years via support from multiple #NSF and #WennerGren grants.
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Behavior drives morphological change during human evolution Dietary shifts and corresponding morphological changes can sometimes evolve in succession, not concurrently—an evolutionary process called behavioral drive. Detecting behavioral drive in the fossil re...

Really cool study looking at how behaviour precedes morphological change across taxa - and implications for human evolution 💀🧪 massive congrats to all the authors, including @vivek123.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🚨 JOB APPLICATION 🚨

The University of Western Australia is looking for an Associate Professor in Biological Anthropology

Deadline for applying: August 22nd

More information on the link below 👇

external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/en/job/52090...

"Indiana Jones and the curse of the Eduroam login"

Forty-four annular turquoise blue glass beads strung on modern thread. Found when a farmer ploughed up a cremation urn at Kongehøj in Denmark in 1885. The urn broke and was found to contain burnt bones, the 44 blue glass beads and two gold spiral rings. Research shows the beads were made in Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq), indicating far-reaching trade in luxury goods some 3,000 years ago

Something lovely for your timeline!

Beautiful blue glass beads from the late Bronze Age.

Ploughed up by a farmer in Denmark in 1885, analysis shows the beads were made in Mesopotamia, pointing to long-distance trade in luxury goods some 3,000 years ago.

📷 National Museum of Denmark

#Archaeology

Out-of-Anatolia: Cultural and genetic interactions during the Neolithic expansion in the Aegean West Anatolia has been a crucial yet elusive element in the Neolithic expansion from the Fertile Crescent to Europe. In this work, we describe the changing genetic and cultural landscapes of early Hol...

We also published a second paper on the spread of farming from Anatolia into SE Europe. Our results challenge the assumption that cultural entities frequently correspond to genetically homogeneous populations. Pots don’t equal people! 🏺
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“A Network of Mutualities of Being”: Socio-material Archaeological Networks and Biological Ties at Çatalhöyük - Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory Recent advances in archaeogenomics have granted access to previously unavailable biological information with the potential to further our understanding of past social dynamics at a range of scales. Ho...

Since our big Science paper on female lineages at Çatalhöyük is out now, it seems like a good time to repost our related paper that we published earlier this year on material and biological ties🙂🌼

Female lineages and changing kinship patterns in Neolithic Çatalhöyük Combining 131 paleogenomes with bioarchaeological and archaeological data, we studied social organization and gendered practices in Çatalhöyük East Mound (7100 to 5950 BCE), a major Neolithic settleme...

After many years this is out now, many congratulations to everybody!

University Lecturer in Egyptology & Archaeology in Cairo University Lecturer in Egyptology & Archaeology in CairoThe Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo is seeking a University Lecturer/Assistant Director in Egyptology & Archaeology (0,5 fte). Are you a ...

Great opportunity to work at NVIC in Cairo with lovely people!

www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...

The archaeology of climate change: a blueprint for integrating environmental and cultural systems - Nature Communications Here, the authors propose how climate change archaeology can explain how cultural systems impact interactions between humans and the environment, and vice versa, presenting a framework based in c...

The archaeology of climate change: a blueprint for integrating environmental and cultural systems www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Temporary position as Senior lecturer in Archaelology with a focus on Egyptian archaeology and cultural history - Uppsala University Temporary position as Senior lecturer in Archaelology with a focus on Egyptian archaeology and cultural history, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of A...

#Egyptology

Changes to the 2026 and 2027 Work Programmes With the launch of the competitions for grants under ERC Work Programme 2026 in July of this year, several changes to the submission of applications and the evaluation of proposals will apply. The mai...

Big changes to the ERC funding schemes!
Note the new eligibility criteria from 2027 on:
📌 Starting Grant: 0-10 y post-PhD
📌 Consolidator Grant: 5-15 y post-PhD
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Suomen Lähi-idän instituutin säätiön tutkija YTM Antti Tarvainen väittelee Helsingin yliopistossa tänä perjantaina 6.6.2025. Väitöstä voi seurata paikan päällä Helsingin yliopistolla tai etäyhteydellä.

An uncropped version of the famous “tank man” photo, during the events of June 4, 1989 in Beijing.

This is the uncropped version of the famous “tank man” photo from June 4, 1989.

Almost half of the Chinese population was born after this event.

Later that year, Austria permitted East Germans holidaying in Hungary to drive over its border.

The Berlin Wall fell in October.

Quite a year.

A set of nine unevenly shaped biscuits arranged in a glass-lidded box. Each biscuit is curved and made to look like a fragent of ancient pottery. The base icing is in shades of orange, peach, and cream. Figures, swirls, repeating leaf patterns, and horses are painted onto the icing surface in black. The biscuits are aged with scratch marks and cracks.

Things are about to get a bit ancient.

I baked these biscuity sherds on a hemisphere cake tin in an attempt to recreate Ancient Greek pottery fragments in all three dimensions. The originals, dating from c.1600-435 BCE, can be found in the collections of the Ashmolean Museum.

Diagram illustrating sex determination using amelogenin proteins in tooth enamel. The top shows X and Y chromosomally encoded protein isoforms (AMELX in blue, AMELY in red) with their amino acid sequences highlighted.

A method for sex determination using peptides in enamel

Raman Spectroscopy Dataset of Permanent Human Teeth from a Historical Swiss Medical Collection🏺🧪
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Measurements of permanent teeth from an anonymized medical collection at the Institute of Evolutionary Medicine

3D virtual soundscape brings ancient Turkish underground city to life Have you ever walked through the ruins of an ancient city and wondered what life sounded like back then? So has Sezin Nas, a researcher of interior architecture and acoustics at Istanbul Galata Univer...

3D virtual soundscape brings ancient Turkish underground city to life. phys.org/news/2025-05...

📣 Join us in Coimbra, Portugal 🇵🇹 for the 2025 Connected Past Conference — Sept 16–19! Explore network analysis, digital methods in the study of the past. 🏛️🌐

✅ Registration open now: shorturl.at/ZY21T
Or use the QR code below!
#archaeology #networks #theconnectedpast

Poster advertising that registration for the Connected Past Coimbra is now open. Features the Connected Past website (www.connectedpast.net) and a QR code for registration. Early bird registration is open until June 30, 2025, with regular registration open until September 5, 2025. Poster also notes that "the conference workshop is free and runs Sept. 16-17, but requires registration as spaces are limited. Register as soon as possible to secure a spot!"

Registration for the @theconnectedpast.bsky.social Coimbra is now OPEN! Register using the QR below or this link! shorturl.at/qp2MT . We hope to see you there! #networks #archaeology #academic

Matkaa muinaiseen Mesopotamiaan FIMEn uudella, kaikille avoimella verkkokurssilla Nuolenpäiden aika: tutustu muinaiseen Lähi-itään! Tiedätkö, miten kirjoitustaito kehittyi? Minkälaista kirjallisuutta he lukivat? Kurssi on kaikille avoin ja maksuton. Löydät kurssin osoitteesta: www.lahi-itakurssit.fi

Tenure Track Assistant or Associate Professor in Social Science or Humanities approaches to Ecosystem Restoration We are now looking for a Tenure Track Assistant or Associate Professor in Social Science or Humanities approaches to Ecosystem Restoration to join us in the research program SAFIRE: Safeguarding Biod

JOB ALERT 1 wk left to apply for this fantastic Tenure Track at Oulu Uni (at Assistant or Associate Prof). 5 years of (mainly) research, generous starting package, and a growing team of wonderful environmental social scientists and humanists.

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Sisällissotaa tutkimassa – siviilit ja taistelijat Syyriassa Helsingin yliopiston väitöskirjatutkija Tiina Hyyppä on studiossa Lähi-idän tutkimuksen maisteriopiskelija Jasmin Paanasen ja FIMEn asiamiehen Anu Leinosen kanssa keskustelemassa Syyriasta sisällissod...

Uusi podcast kuunneltavissa NYT! Tutkija Tiina Hyyppä tarkastelee omassa tutkimuksessaan sisällissodan aikaisia paikallishallintoja, erityisesti siviilien roolia niissä. Jaksossa käydään myös läpi Syyrian nykytilannetta joulukuun 2024 vallankumouksen jälkeen.

FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITY
The 2026 British Council 90th Anniversary Research Fellowship is now open for applications!

Two 13-month Fellowships are available, Jan-Dec 2026 at £2,500 per month.

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Introducing the Special Feature on housing differences and inequality over the very long term | PNAS Introducing the Special Feature on housing differences and inequality over the very long term

"This Special Feature represents a collective effort to accelerate archaeological assessment of economic inequality. Archaeological data allow us to explore fundamental drivers of economic inequality, test ideas about inequality from recent history & offer novel perspectives from broad perspective"

Matkaa muinaiseen Mesopotamiaan FIMEn uudella, kaikille avoimella verkkokurssilla Nuolenpäiden aika: tutustu muinaiseen Lähi-itään – Suomen Lähi-idän instituutti Tiedätkö, miten kirjoitustaito kehittyi? Keitä Lähi-idässä asui 5000–2500 vuotta sitten? Minkälaista kirjallisuutta he lukivat? Entä millaisia olivat heidän jumalansa? Mitä […]

UUSI VERKKOKURSSI JULKAISTU! Matkaa muinaiseen Mesopotamiaan FIMEn uudella, kaikille avoimella verkkokurssilla Nuolenpäiden aika: tutustu muinaiseen Lähi-itään! tinyurl.com/ys36ba73 #FIME #lähi-itä #mesopotamia #kurssi #tiede #arkeologia #historia